scholarly journals Polycaprolactone-templated reduced-graphene oxide liquid crystal nanofibers towards biomedical applications

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (63) ◽  
pp. 39628-39634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad ◽  
Mohamad Hasan Mohamadzadeh Moghadam ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Ghanian ◽  
Mohammad Kazemi Ashtiani ◽  
Hossein Alimadadi ◽  
...  

Here, we report a facile method to generate electrically conductive nanofibers by coating and subsequently chemically reducing graphene oxide (GO) liquid crystals on a polycaprolactone (PCL) mat.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 15070-15076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linxiang He ◽  
Sie Chin Tjong

Nano silver-decorated reduced graphene oxide (Ag–RGO) sheets were synthesized by simply dissolving graphite oxide and silver nitrate inN,N-dimethylformamide and keeping the suspension at 90 °C for 12 h.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareddi Bharath Kumar ◽  
Mohammad Awwal Adeshina ◽  
Daekyung Kang ◽  
Youngho Jee ◽  
Taewan Kim ◽  
...  

We investigated the effect of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) doping on the birefringence of 5CB liquid crystal (LC). The characteristics of the synthesized rGO and LC-rGO composite with different rGO concentrations were analyzed by atomic force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, white light polarized microscopy, voltage-dependent transmission measurement, and differential scanning calorimetry. We found that doping LC with an appropriate concentration of rGO enhances the birefringence of the LC. This is mainly due to the improved anisotropy of polarizability, which stems from the high shape anisotropy of rGO. However, the aggregation of rGO reduces the birefringence by decreasing the anisotropy of polarizability as well as the order parameter. Our study shows the promising potential of LC-rGO for developing various electro-optic devices that offer improved electro-optic effects.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Plachá ◽  
Josef Jampilek

Graphene-based nanomaterials have been intensively studied for their properties, modifications, and application potential. Biomedical applications are one of the main directions of research in this field. This review summarizes the research results which were obtained in the last two years (2017–2019), especially those related to drug/gene/protein delivery systems and materials with antimicrobial properties. Due to the large number of studies in the area of carbon nanomaterials, attention here is focused only on 2D structures, i.e. graphene, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene oxide.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1996-2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Jamaleddin Peighambardoust ◽  
Hamed Rikhtegar ◽  
Parisa Mohammadzadeh Pakdel ◽  
Abdolreza Mirmohseni

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